Jericho Way gets funds to fix home

A Little Rock homeless resource center announced Friday that it now has the funds to renovate a home to offer affordable housing.

Depaul USA, a national organization that operates Little Rock's Jericho Way Resource Center, has secured the money necessary to renovate an empty single-family home it recently bought, according to a news release.

It's the first property in Little Rock that Depaul USA has purchased, the release said. The home is at 6601 Heather Lane.

"Now, thanks to the generosity of the Little Rock community, Depaul USA can provide clean, safe and affordable housing," Chuck Levesque, president of Depaul USA, said in the release.

"This is the logical next step for our organization as we look to grow and expand in Little Rock," he said.

The home is being renovated as part of Depaul USA's "13 Houses" campaign.

The campaign is an initiative to develop 13 units of housing in all 151 countries that have "Vincentian presence," the release said. The national organization draws inspiration from the lives and works of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louis de Marillac.

Mandy Davis, who directs Jericho Way, said in a statement that she is "very excited and proud that Little Rock is the site of the first of the '13 Houses' being developed in the U.S. Every day at Jericho Way we draw on our Vincentian heritage to serve our homeless neighbors with dignity and love."

The renovation will be kicked off by a ceremony at the home at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Metro on 06/02/2018

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